rotate

Prototype

Description

Rotate rotates the elements in a range. That is, the element pointed to by middle is moved to the position first, the element pointed to by middle + 1 is moved to the position first + 1, and so on. One way to think about this operation is that it exchanges the two ranges [first, middle) and [middle, last). Formally, for every integer n such that 0 <= n < last - first, the element *(first + n) is assigned to *(first + (n + (last - middle)) % (last - first)). Rotate returns first + (last - middle).

Definition

Defined in the standard header algorithm, and in the nonstandard backward-compatibility header algo.h.